Sex Trafficking in Kolkata, India

India is one of the most culturally rich continents in the world. Thousands of languages are spoken there. Architectural, literary, and religious traditions all flourish there.

It has long been my dream to go to India.

Though I have known of the problems with prostitution in India, their severity was recently brought into sharp relief for me as I spoke with my dear friend, Michelle, who has served as a missionary with Free-Set Bags in Kokata, India.

Did you know that in Kolkata there are brothels filled, not just with adult women or teenagers, but with pre-pubescent children ages 7 to 10 who are raped and sexually assaulted daily by brothel clients?

I had not realized there were brothels specifically full of children in India. I was appalled that there were brothel owners who could think to appeal to a market of pedophiles. I was even more devastated as I thought that a sufficiently large market of such clients exists to make such a “business” not only sustainable, but profitable.

How can this be?

The daughters and sons of prostitutes are particularly at risk of being exploited and prostituted. The film, “Born into Brothels,” which originally aimed to work as a documentary to educate people about the problem, actually worked like an advertisement–tripling the international clientele of Kolkata brothels within three months of its release.

PRAY for the end of sexual slavery in India. Pray for the deliverance of children from every brothel. Pray for the love of Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit to save, to heal, and to redeem every person who has been sexually assaulted in Calcutta today.